Isn’t it ironic: Mexico lawmakers want to reinstate death penalty; Plus: Mexico cracks down on illegal aliens
In case you hadn’t noticed, Mexico is in chaos. Beheaded and bullet-ridden bodies are turning up left and right along the southern border. Drug traffickers are running rampant in Sinaloa. Corruptocrats are letting gangs take over their cities. In Tijuana, 200 people were killed in a month. The CSM reports: “Last weekend turned into one of the city’s deadliest: nearly 40 were killed, four of whom were children, and nine of them beheaded.”
The hellish conditions have prompted some Mexican lawmakers to revisit the country’s ban on capital punishment. That’s right. Members of the same foreign government that took America to court over our death penalty laws– and tried to block the state of Texas from executing illegal alien Death Row murderers — are now open to the idea of imposing the death penalty on the thugs on their own soil.
Isn’t it ironic? Don’t you think? A little too ironic:
Anger and frustration over rampant killings and kidnappings have ignited an improbable debate here over legalizing the death penalty, a punishment that has been effectively banned in Mexico for nearly half a century.
Lawmakers agreed Thursday to hear arguments next week on a proposal to amend the Mexican Constitution to allow for capital punishment in a narrow number of cases.
The initiative from Humberto Moreira, governor of the northern border state of Coahuila, would allow the death penalty for convicted kidnappers who killed or mutilated their victims. He said as far as the people of his state were concerned, the only issue was how to execute convicts, not whether to do so.
It is highly unlikely, if not impossible, that the death penalty could be reinstated because of legal obstacles, experts said. But that is almost beside the point. Moreira has tapped into public panic over soaring crime, a climate of fear that has made law and order the country’s No. 1 worry.
Hey, how’s that Merida Initiative working out?
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And now…Mexico gets tough(er) on illegal aliens in their homeland:
Mexico sent home the first group of illegal Cuban migrants under a new accord aimed at cutting off an increasingly violent human-trafficking route to the United States, the government said Thursday.
The 41 migrants left the resort city of Cancun aboard a Mexican navy ship taking them back to Cuba, a statement from the navy and the Interior Department said.
Before Mexico signed the agreement with Cuba in October, authorities rarely sent migrants back to the communist island.
Until now, Cubans were detained briefly in Mexico, then given 10- to 30-day exit orders. That allowed them to continue on to Texas, where all that is required of Cuban migrants are identity documents and medical and background checks before they are welcomed to America.
As it became harder to dodge U.S. Coast Guard vessels and reach Florida by sea to qualify for U.S. residency, Cuban migrants in recent years have increasingly chosen Mexico — often heading to the coast near Cancun — as their route to the United States.
But Mexico has become frustrated with the migrations as violent traffickers increasingly got involved in moving them across the country. Several Cuban-Americans believed to be involved in smuggling have been killed in recent years in or around Cancun, about 120 miles (195 kilometers) southwest of Cuba.
In June, gunmen snatched 33 Cubans off a government bus headed to an immigration station in southern Mexico, possibly to extort money from them or their smugglers. Many of those migrants later turned up in the U.S.
But wait. That’s RAAAACIST!
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Just a suggestion, but how about letting it read this way:
Would allow the death penalty for convicted kidnappers, killers, and torturers.
You’re gonna have to get tough if you want to impress the tough guys.
Mexico has been getting a free ride from the US for far too long..it is time they do the things necessary to competently run a country instead of putting out a government of their richest people who do nothing but beg when they want our money, and scream racism when we don’t just hand it to them or kiss their asses on command.
Gee, I wonder how long it will be before they will allow their citizens to own guns again?
Nah, can’t do that. Their crime rate might go up then.
Gasp* It would be like Dodge City, then!
Does this mean if it becomes law the U.S. can go back retro actively and extradite accused murders hiding in Mexico, drag their scaly butts back here and execute them? Lord i hope so, you have to consider I’m a ruthless conservative that wants justice applied.
MM channeling Alanis Morissette= hilarity
*giggle*
More likely, we’d start harboring them here.
Can you just imagine how big that gallows would need to be?
Where I’m sure they recieve a warm welcome home.
Now you know how we feel.
With the US economy imploding, Mexico is concerned that millions of poor people may try to head south looking for work. They’ll probably start building a wall along the Rio Grande next.
HAHAHA
It’s like RAAAAAIIIIINNNNN…..
Michelle, I emailed you this but I suspect you have a very scary inbox.
New England Border Patrol Chief Arrested For Hiring Illegals To Clean Her House
with 12 million illegal aliens in the u.s. and no nearly 10 million americans out of work here, it seems a no brainer that our politicians would see that this is the time to crack down and build that wall. but no, i just read on drudge that the boston area government worker in charge of arresting illegal aliens has hired them to be her housekeepers for years and advised them how to stay here. ba bye to your government pension sweetheart. for the love of the housekeeper.
I can’t help but think this is Bizarro World. Any Superman fans? “Me am Customs Officer.”
Dear Mexico,
May we suggest that you try a *surge* of your own? The U.S. surge worked out for us. It looks like you’re now having more beheadings than we once did.
Signed,
Iraq
*out*
Beheaded? Man, those Islamics are closer than we thought!
Are we supposed to feel more pity for them when it is called “human trafficking”?
Several years ago, I enquired about working in Cabo San Lucas, the Mexican resort town, where the American residency is over 15,000. I was told that one MUST obtain a Mexican Work Visa to work in Mexico.
I asked about running a sportfishing service…get this…you can as long as you have a Mexican co-owner, but the boat captains and crew members MUST be Mexican citizens.
Also, if you live in Mexico and owe taxes, they will not permit you to leave the country, or release your chattel until those back taxes are paid…but of course this only applies to gringos, not the indigents.
Mexico is making room for all of its citizen to return from the US. When time get tough, it gets more difficult to feel sorry for illegals. By the time the 2010 census rolls around, I’ll bet that there are alot fewer illegals to count. How many spanish speakers will lose their jobs? Bilingual education anyone? Press 2 for spanish?
Look on the bright side Mexico, at least you don’t have to press #1 for Spanish!
Wow, no surprise from this reader…
Also, on a highly related note – yesterday on Lou Dobbs, he featured an interview with a pair of journalists that had researched/written an article for Newsweek mag. (Link to online story here)
Most of the material was fairly boilerplate typical stuff (at least to someone that has a basic familiarity of this subject matter). What struck me as unusual, or even poignant, was the fact that there were peons in the MSM that openly referred to Mexico as “a failed state”, and, “the Federal Government [of Mexico] has lost functional control over large parts of the country” (from memory, not exact words, but very, very close to what was said).
The unknowing and unaware masses in this country need to WAKE UP NOW! and make sure that border fence/wall/barrier is built ASAP. Soon, you will see a large scale disintegration of Mexican society, and where do you think 120+ million Mexicans are going to want to escape to???
Sorry Rambler, I didn’t mean to steal your thought stream.
Something strange is going on. The local talk radio station I listen to has a pretty conservative line-up: Mike Gallagher, Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt, Michael Savage.
Well recently, this station has been running ads aimed at Mexican citizens spoken by a male announcer who has no hint of a Spanish accent.
Some of the subjects of these ads include:
-Mexican citizens should report crimes committed in Mexico.
-Mexican citizens should support Mexican Senators that want to privatize Pemex.
Given the target audience of these ads, have I already become a Mexican citizen and not even realized it? Very.Strange.
BTW, as a Mexican citizen, I support the death penalty for violent drug gangsters and I am in favor of privatizing Pemex. Did they really want to Requonquista me?
North American Union coming soon.
They bring a stick, you bring a brick, they bring a brick, you bring a knife, they bring a knife, you bring a gun. They hurt one of us, you put one of theirs in the hospital. One of ours to the hospital, one of theirs to the morgue. Kill one of ours, we take ten of theirs. Even the dumbest of dumb criminals will get the hint at SOME point.
BUt then, this plan would require actual physical action, not “diplomatic solutions”.
too bad they don’t follow their own laws where anyone who exits the country must do so a an approved border crossing…ha ha ha….we must do the same and enforce our laws and mirror their’s on illegals…
Good for them. They are doing what needs to be done. I suggest we not gloat or get hung up on the past.
Let’s use this positive development and work with them on destroying this common enemy.
Just shows you how well strict gun control laws work.
The sagging economy here, the number out of work, the bail-out tidal wave, and a new administration bent on fixing all social ills – I only wish I could tag along after one of those re-trespassing the border.
One of the more interesting aspects of the economy is our travel industry. Anybody checked out trips to Mexico lately – there are firesales all over the net. How about cruises making port there? Same thing. I’m guessing that Mexico will do just about anything to stop the carnage and reassure travelers worldwide of some semblance of safety. A relative in CA recently returned from a trip and said the high-end resort they stayed was “dirt cheap and empty.” I also have a feeling those that may be returning to their homeland will demand the govn’t change and protect it’s citizens. I’ve started to book a trip several times only to back out and decide it’s not worth the risk.
Kind of takes the luster off of a resort vacation when you find headless bodies in the parking lot. Of course, it’s Americas fault.
Hypocrisy! Woo, go Mexico! Now if we could only get all the lawyers who were involved in defending the U.S.’s stance on executing prisoners convicted of heinous crimes who were shouted at and bullied by Mexico to repay the favor now the table can be brought full circle.
You reap what you sow. You sure are reaping some real nasty violence right about now that you appear helpless to stop. How’s that gun ban and turning a blind eye to drug running, human smuggling, and government corruption working out for you now eh Mexico?
Si, si puede
Southpaw #31
For years I’ve refused to travel to Mexico with the, what I now consider, mistaken belief that if I boycotted the whole danged country they’d come to their senses and help close the border. I waited too long – they haven’t closed the border, their little money senders are still working here and sending money home…we haven’t closed the border or built the long promised fence either – so my new tactic was to travel there and support the local economies. Well, to my utter complete shock – it’s not safe to do that either. The place is a train wreck. Must-come-up-with-new-plan!
Mexico is an object lesson on what happens to a society with no concrete, universal moral standards. It becomes every Hombre for himself. The corruption is endemic to the entire culture. From the highest levels of government to the ordinary citizen, nearly everyone will lie, cheat, and steal in an attempt to get something more than what they have. If that person is, for example, bipedally transplanted into another place, the culture of corruption comes with them.
I doubt there is any possible rehabilitation of what is oxymoronically called Mexican society. Only when things implode/explode there will the change begin. Build a wall so we are protected when that happens.
This story does not shock me… Only problem is MEXICO is about 20 years too late… The drug cartels have such a hold on MEXICO now, and so much money to work with nothing short of a MINI-REVOLUTION is going to help MEXICO… And the US, with their LAX IMMIGRATION POLICIES over the last 20 years are no better… When these DRUG WARS spill over into this country, and they are close to that now, IMMIGRATION POLICY will be a little to little, a little too late… To both MEXICO and the US, welcome to the results of ignoring a problem for 20 years…
Mexicans are just jealous that Cubans can just walk up to the border and just be welcome to the US. While they have to cross illegally.
Haters that is all.